Help With Algae Identification

I think it is diatoms but i am not sure. It is brown and can sometimes make long brown hairy strings. Here is a video of the algae:
YouTube - 55 Gallon Saltwater Aquarium With Algae Problem

 

Is this a newly set up tank?

It looks like diatoms with me, and maybe a touch of GHA, do you see bubbles forming on the ends of it, that usually indicates dinoflagellates

 

I recently transferred my 35 gallon reef tank into this 55 gallon tank. I sometimes see bubbles at the end of it. How would you kill dinoflagellates?

 

Looks like you have a couple algaes. Dino does not usually grow on the glass so that is probably green hair algae.

Hopefully is it just a combination of cyanobacteria, diatoms, and green hair algae. Dino is a nightmare.

Attached is a link which maybe of assistance.

Problem Dinoflagellates and pH by Randy Holmes-Farley - Reefkeeping.com

Welcome to 3reef.

 

Okay thanks! I have some stuff called chemi-clean by Boyd. Do you think that might help a little bit?

 

looks like diatoms; is the tank still cycling?

 

Also should i get some macro algae? If so what kind it would have to go in the display. I was thinking maybe some type of caulerpa but I am worried it might go sexual.

 

Not sure about chemi-clean. Chempure elite had some gfo in it. Algae blooms of green hair algae and diatoms are pretty common in new tanks regardless of if you used cured live rock.

Just make sure you use ro/di water only for water changes. Test for phosphates if it does not resolve soon.

Identification of dino is hard, but it usually gets progressively worse towards the middle to end of the lighting period. Stringy with air bubbles attached to the strings. You can clean it one day and it is right back the next day. The treatment is complicated and involved so make sure that is what it is before you consider the interventions to treat dino.

Otherwise just make sure you keep nutritent and phosphate levels very low.

Chaeto is a better choice in my opinion.

 

Ok thanks. Can i keep chaeto in my main tank? or will the hermit crabs, snails, and tang eat it?

 

you can try to keep macro in your DT, but I think your tank will eat it too fast. I keep quite a few marcos in my DT, but the one I have a yellow tank is has no more macro lol. I've had caulerpa in every tank I've had and I've never seen a problem, not that I have read up on it going sexual. I do have to keep it pretty trimmed back or it will take over, but that's not to hard.